There is a huge disconnect , folks don't know or care or both and it's killing people. Talk about Russian roulette .
will you be the one who dies or will you kill people because you're spreading...

I agree, it does. But I think the simple answer is sure, they are. The other binary choice, don't mandate, seems worse.

The real problem is that our culture - and maybe most cultures - don't...

There is a strong statistical correlation between the number of teachers in a county and the quantity of alcoholic beverages consumed in that county. Obviously, teachers are drunkards.

It is also...

I've always relied on observation, communication, and intuition with my past cats. It seems hard to say based only on what you shared. And I'm no expert... it might be a common telltale behavior...

your blinders and projection are very strong. She says very clearly: ". I work with a community that has been hit hard by Covid." Now, if you want to push back, saying she's got only anecdotal...

Looking through Grandma's
old photographs the children
find only strangers.

Elsie Jachowski - American Haiku, Vol. II, No. 2, 1964

Your list could serve as a beautiful mirror for you .... if you are open.

I wish you a renaissance in your own consciousness... The beauty of discovery of the value of those you worked with...

211 New Cases Reported in Sonoma County. Follow cases in your zip code here. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1edbb41952a8417385652279305e878d/page/page_30/

They still have not updated the...

Grandma knits a sock,
grandpa's chair rocks, yet he sleeps;
snow blocks the roadway.

Jerri Spinelli - Borrowed Water, 1964

I love the way end-rhyme is combined with internal rhyme in this...

Judith,
I read every one of your posts with extreme skepticism and sadness. Several months ago, you questioned whether we knew of anyone who was actually affected by the virus. Days later you...

Mayacaman, a long time ago I was fortunate to work with severely developmentally delayed folks institutionalized at a state hospital- I began to learn that there are many different forms of...

This cold winter night
no bird sings; just the old moon
in a songless sky.

Peter Britell -- The 700 Haiku of the Carpenter, 2014

I like that haiku has become part of blue collar culture. I...

Great answer, and very accurate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hks6Nq7g6P4
The Juice Media, Mar 13, 2020

Honest Government Ad | Coronavirus: Flatten The Curve

The Government has made an ad about the Coronavirus and it's...

Jude, you seem to frequently rebroadcast unsubstantiated, even already debunked, claims from social media sources that fit your pre-existing opinions.

Take your opening paragraph" "Beginning with...

My best guess--- cats are both predators and prey. As prey animals for larger animals, certain situations, such as eating, pooping, etc. make them more vulnerable. For the time they are eating, their...

This seems to refer to a NYT article from Aug. 29, 2020 (updated Sept. 17, 2020).
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html

The gloss, "NYT: 90% of PCR Positive CV Tests...

The Indian newspaper article does not say that 87,000 nurses in the Netherlands are refusing the vaccine but that one person claims this, a healthcare worker who earlier put corona and flu on the...

There's a very simple reason "you don't hear about this anywhere" but the conspiracy pushing websites you frequent- its BUL*%%*t .

This is from the conspiracy pushing group calling themselves the...

She rubs her cold hands
a thousand times, even ten
thousand times over.

Seishi Yamaguchi -- The Essence of Modern Haiku, Translated by Takashi Kodaira and Alfred H. Marks

I posted a haiku by...

The most effective way to defund the Republican Party is to boycott Conservatives' businesses. Do the right thing and find alternatives. Shopping at Community Market instead of Whole Foods is a good...

Two vaccines are available that protect against 36 common pneumococcal bacterial strains. If you are 65 or older, have asthma or certain conditions, you can get them (I have). My partner tried to...

Most covid related deaths have NOT been patients who were on ventilators. And recently the covid related deaths have surpassed those from other causes such as heart disease. Again, how do you...

Are you saying that you are a medical doctor providing this "slow medicine" service? As far as I know, from a financial aspect only, a 60-90 minute visit would be incredibly prohibitive and not...

When, as a nurse, do you recall refrigeration trucks lined up outside of hospitals for the purpose of storing dead bodies because the morgues were beyond capacity?

When, in your lifetime, do you...

It's time to defund the Republican Party

In yesterday's rant, I laid out all the reasons why Democrats should put at the top of their priority list "defunding the Republican Party." ...

Here's a good article from the NY Times about excess deaths (death count above the expected rate) from August:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/nytlogo152x23.gif
The True Coronavirus...

Judith, I appreciate your openness in agreeing that good points have been made here. I wish you would also respond to a point I raised several Waccos ago, where I said that I have had many...

So there is not even a pandemic?! All those deaths and severe illnesses we hear about on the news, then, are just some kind of massive propaganda campaign spewed forth to advance some weird...

OK, so then what's up with all the dead people?

<br><br>What bothers me is that your position does not consider others. So yes, I take issue with that. Not participating in a vaccine program harms others.

Sayer Ji, the founder of the "news" site GreenMedInfo has an anti-vaccine agenda. He is a conspiracy theorist with a BA in philosophy. Note that the article "is not intended to provide medical...

Doesn't sound like a hoax to me, folks:

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-doctor-uses-twitter-to-describe-isolation-grief-and-joy-in-hosp/?ref=mosthome

Thank you for this background on mRNA vaccines and on Pfizer's role in the Nigerian debacle. I wonder if anyone is developing a test to determine whether an individual actually needs this vaccine, or...

uh, never?
I get your point that the MSME (main-stream medical establishment) is ignoring your wonderful 100% successful treatment, and that it's unfair to expect you can force it on them.
If...

Adolf Hitler was able to organize the Nazi party around his claim that Germany was treated unfairly by the Treaty of Versailles that ended WWI. T**** and the Republicans are trying the same trick....

Dark in the cabin.
No lamp but the blue moon of
the computer screen.

Mary Jo Salter -- Open Shutters, 2003

Mary Jo Salter is a contemporary poet, editor, and teacher. Her work is widely...

Ah, if it were only that simple!
Unfortunately, the maskless are not killing themselves, they are killing the elderly, the essential workers, the medical staff, and disproportionately people of...

For starters I googled James Corbett and got this:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/James_Corbett

James Corbett is an Anarcho-capitalist/Anarcho-voluntarist YouTuber, conspiracy theorist, and an...

The Supreme Court has enshrined the Right to be Stupid among the fundamental rights of American citizenship. The Court agreed that the rights of citizens to freely assemble in religious practice...

his explanation seems clear enough. You could always make a short post, short enough for the digest, promoting the longer one on the main thread. Or even post the long stuff on a website and just...

I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now

You’ve already lost. This is what Americans need to understand

From Medium an unexpected voice explains . . .

Sitting in the dark
With the garden bells tinkling,
I feel less alone.

Jinna Johnson - A Thousand Petals, 1971

I felt like posting a second haiku by Jinna Johnson because I particularly enjoy...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/nytlogo152x23.gif
Opinion
When the World Seems Like One Big Conspiracy
Understanding the structure of global cabal theories can shed light on their allure...

leaves turning color
I grab all the words I can
to end my novel

Leatrice Lifshitz, Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, edited by William J. Higginson, 1996

In Japan one aspect of...

My daughter leaves home.
Slowly the quietness grows.
The autumn rain falls.

Gunther Klinge - Day into Night: A Haiku Journey, Translated by Ann Atwood, 1980

Gunther Klinge was a German haiku...

One of the primary reasons the death rate is low in the US is we have managed for the most part to stay within capacity of our ICUs and Intensivists. When they get overrun the death toll will...

Suddenly aware,
leaves which lately graced our trees,
now no longer there.

A. E. Judd -- American Haiku Number Two, 1963

Here are a couple more articles to she more light on the current crisis with Trump refusing to leave office:

Accept that Donald Trump is not a fluke of American politics, & let it set this country...

The mortality rate is important, of course. However, it is not the only relevant metric. Only a small percentage of those infected by SARS-CoV-2 die. Nevertheless, the number of cases that require...